Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-12-10
A nOARDING.HOUsE RomANCs.
why some People are Obiecttona.
BILE BOarslcrs.


BILE BOarsiers.
I'VE never board people who write.
No objection to you, personally, but
cannot take YOU"
Ihe speaker was stout woman, the
proprletress of clearinghouse on
the West Side. The applicant was a
newspaper man. After rejecting a
moment he asked her why she object
ed to writer's.
They always have something to
say at the table, and generally at the
expense of the food. My boarders
would soon all become demoralized.
l had one OF your set, young fellow
who wrote rhymes. After the last one
he wrote gave him notice to leave.
1t was this SANDER:
Oh, il you want to feel
Like salt and peppered eel,
r. Or clam In butter tub. -
Just tackle Mrs. Blanks best grub.
He did not get chance to tackle
any more of my grub"
A landlady near Madison Square.
who has four or five boarding-houses
and has been in the business twenty
years, gave some interesting informa-
ton Oh the subject. She said: "The
most Objectionable boarder is the one
who finds fault at the table. 1t be-
comes contagious, and finally I begin
to lose my boarders. fthese precious
high-palate epicures would only COM
municate with the head Of the house
without raising a row at the table,
there would be some excuse. Well,
do not let the cobwebs grow upon
their stay but get them out Of the house
at once. l always give weeks no
tice to leave in ordinary cases, and
nine cases out OF ten the person either
has pride enough Or gets angry and
leaves Immediately. In cases Of i'm
proper conduct 1 give only few
hours notice. If I could write book
it would be on rules to guide boarders.
The men, old as we'll as young, are
too prone to flirt with the mattresses if
they are good looking. Homely SER
want girls are in demand"
You must have had some queer
experiences?"
II have; and some of the incidents
that have occurred in my boarding
house would make romantic reading.
One Of the most polished bank bur
glars in the profession boarded with
me three months. We thought he
was very pious. He always had
plenty of money, gave good references
when he came to board-though l af-
terward learned these were forgeries-
and soon became a favorite with the
young ladies in the house. He finally
married a young and beautiful girl.
He professed to be a commercial trav-
Ter. He was frequently absent two
rthree weeks from his wife, and dur
q that time she never received more
an two letters. When he departed
never permitted his wife to assist
i. in packing his valise, because
>cmen were forgetful. One day he
went on one Of his usual trips, saying
h =, aould return in about two weeks.
Ta weeks past and two months, and
Ii, lid not return or write to the al
mo distracted wife. He had often
til 'l.r never to go down town to the
bus ne house and bother his employ
ers lien he was absent. She had
never even gone to his place Of busi-
ness while he was ut home.
Disregarding his injunction in her
alarm about his absence, she went to
the firm and discovered that no such
man as her husband had ever been
connected with the house. She had
then consulted the police and found
that over month after her husband
left her he was captured and convicted
Of robbing bank, and was then in
Sing Sing serving ten years SEN
tence. Did she pine and die? No;
she procured divorce and married
again. Her present husband is
wealthy, and he idolizes his pretty
wife. He knows, too, his wife's his.
tory. They move in good circles
New York Mail and Express.